Masan

See also: masan

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 마산(馬山) (masan).

Proper noun

Masan

1. An administrative region of Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea.
   • 2020 November 14, Michael Astor, “Lee Hyo-jae, Champion of Women’s Rights in South Korea, Dies at 95”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on November 14, 2020, Asia Pacific‎^[2]:

     Lee Hyo-jae was born on Nov. 4, 1924, in Masan, a precinct of Changwon in Gyeongsang Province, during the Japanese occupation of Korea.